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I'm not sure why they limit themselves to food deliveries with Uber Eats. They basically have a quasi-unlimited fleet of transportation vehicles at their dispo

by Renaud 7y ago

I'm not sure why they limit themselves to food deliveries with Uber Eats. They basically have a quasi-unlimited fleet of transportation vehicles at their disposal. How about delivering anything for people and businesses? The power of whomever cracks this would be in the software handling the logistics, but imagine that on top of passengers, you could also elect to transport some bags or (small) boxes for other stuff people may order, or for small businesses. You could easily increase the usage of your fleet during non-peak hours especially.

bsimpson 7y ago
"I love my FedEx guy, because he's a drug dealer, and he doesn't even know it." - Mitch Hedberg
Marazan 7y ago
Because how a taxi works is not how a courier works. Taxi's occasionally do courier work but there's a reason why courier services exist and it's not just all taxi firms.
jpalomaki 7y ago
When you are doing the courier stuff for companies, you likely want to get it right from the beginning. Maybe they are practicing and collecting data while delivering food. Things like time it takes it to deliver on certain route, which couriers are reliable, how many deliveries couriers can make, how much to pay them etc.
wasdfff 7y ago
I assume because its not very efficient at all. A 10 mile trip in LA in traffic will burn a $4 gallon of gas in everything but a brand new fuel efficient car. Most people willing to sit in traffic for hours after work to scrape a few more bucks are not in a brand new car. That’s potentially $4 a trip just from the gas alone. At that markup I’ll bike to the store and save the planet. Even amazon outsources their last mile delivery to contractors who absorb these costs somehow (probably by abusing employees and/or making them pee in bottles to make quota).
abvdasker 7y ago
They tried this already. Google "Uber Rush".

by Renaud 7y ago

bsimpson 7y ago

"I love my FedEx guy, because he's a drug dealer, and he doesn't even know it." - Mitch Hedberg

Marazan 7y ago

Because how a taxi works is not how a courier works. Taxi's occasionally do courier work but there's a reason why courier services exist and it's not just all taxi firms.

jpalomaki 7y ago

When you are doing the courier stuff for companies, you likely want to get it right from the beginning. Maybe they are practicing and collecting data while delivering food. Things like time it takes it to deliver on certain route, which couriers are reliable, how many deliveries couriers can make, how much to pay them etc.

wasdfff 7y ago

I assume because its not very efficient at all. A 10 mile trip in LA in traffic will burn a $4 gallon of gas in everything but a brand new fuel efficient car. Most people willing to sit in traffic for hours after work to scrape a few more bucks are not in a brand new car. That’s potentially $4 a trip just from the gas alone. At that markup I’ll bike to the store and save the planet. Even amazon outsources their last mile delivery to contractors who absorb these costs somehow (probably by abusing employees and/or making them pee in bottles to make quota).

abvdasker 7y ago

They tried this already. Google "Uber Rush".